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🍨 A walk, a wag, a block party, and a band you know

🍨 A walk, a wag, a block party, and a band you know

Dustin Hart
May 08, 2026

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Good day, Wayzata. This is Wayzata Scoop, the local newsletter that gets you through the shorts-or-jacket dilemma.

In today’s Scoop:

A Plymouth walk built around the kids gone too soon ♥️
Third Eye Blind and four country headliners are coming to Plymouth's lawn 🎶
Plymouth's annual "actually meet your neighbors" night returns August 4 👮
Plymouth's free dog-centric Saturday is back May 16 🐶

Let’s get to it.

— Dustin Hart

📢 TALK OF THE TOWN

The Plymouth walk where every step has a name behind it

Some events ask you to show up. This one asks you to show up for someone — a kid, a sibling, a niece, a friend's son — whose name still gets said out loud, even now.

The Walk for Child Loss lands in Plymouth on Saturday, May 30th, and the rules are loose by design. Walk solo, rally a team, lace up in your driveway in Duluth or Dallas — wherever you are, you're in. The Child Loss Foundation (the new name for Faith's Lodge and The BeliEve Foundation, now under one roof) puts every dollar toward resources, retreats, and real human connection for grieving families across the country.

A few things worth knowing before you sign up:

Kids 13 and under walk free. T-shirts are add-ons that double as awareness. And the Gassen family — walking in honor of their daughter Eve — has stacked the fundraising side with incentives. Hit $1,000 as a team and you're entered to win a full suite at the June 6th Twins game. Every additional $500 after that = another raffle entry. Top fundraisers get two tickets to the Northern Lights Gala on October 10th at International Market Square.

You can walk, run, bike, push a stroller, bring the dog. Post a photo with #WalkforChildLoss and tag @childlossfoundation so other families know they're not alone in this.

Register here: give.childlossfoundation.org

Some Saturdays are for errands. This one's for names.

Plymouth's Hilde stage just booked a real summer concert lineup

Plymouth's lawn just got a serious upgrade. The Hilde Performance Center — the open-air venue you've probably seen from Plymouth Boulevard and thought "huh, that's a real stage" — is hosting a two-night ticketed concert series this summer with names you'd actually pay to see.

It's called Hilde Amplified, and it lands July 31 and August 1.

Friday night goes country, and not the local-cover-band kind. Brett Young, Ashley McBryde, Rodney Atkins, and Matt Stell — four artists with real radio résumés — share the bill. Saturday flips the genre dial: Third Eye Blind headlines (yes, that Third Eye Blind, the one that's been stuck in your head since 1997), with lovelytheband and others rounding out the night.

The pitch is part big concert, part summer-evening-on-the-lawn. Think: stars overhead, food and drinks within reach, and acoustics that don't make you wish you'd stayed home. Plymouth's Parks and Rec director Jennifer Tomlinson is calling the Hilde one of the Twin Cities' premier outdoor venues, and honestly — having a national tour stop walking distance from downtown Plymouth instead of trekking to St. Paul is a flex.

Hotels, restaurants, and parking are all close by, which means you can make a full night of it without the post-show traffic war.

Single-day and two-day tickets are on sale now at hildeamplified.com.

Summer plans: handled.

plymouthmn.org

Night to Unite is back — and the city visits are now a lottery

You know that neighbor three doors down whose name you've been meaning to learn for, oh, four summers running? Plymouth has a fix for that.

Night to Unite is back on Tuesday, August 4 from 6–8:30 p.m. — the statewide tradition where blocks across Minnesota pull out folding chairs, fire up grills, and remember that "community" isn't just something HOAs put in newsletters. It's part crime prevention, part icebreaker, all low-stakes.

The format is wide open. Potluck on the cul-de-sac. Ice cream social in someone's driveway. A pile of pizzas from the place down the road. The bar is genuinely "show up and say hi" — no Pinterest board required.

Here's the wrinkle that's new this year: if you want a visit from Plymouth police, firefighters, public works crews, or an elected official, you'll need to register your block party — and visits are now picked by lottery. Sign up by Sunday, June 14, and selected hosts get an email after the deadline. Public Safety Director Erik Fadden says the team genuinely looks forward to it, which tracks; one night a year where the squad car shows up for snow cones instead of sirens is a good night.

Even if you don't get the lottery pull, registering still gets your block on the official map and signals the city you're hosting.

Register your block party: plymouthmn.gov/night-to-unite

Learn the four-doors-down neighbor's name. It's been long enough.

Bark in the Park returns to the Hilde with K9 demos and pup pools

If your dog has been giving you the "we need to do something fun this weekend" eyes, Plymouth's about to deliver.

Bark in the Park returns to the Hilde Performance Center on Saturday, May 16 from 9 a.m. to noon — three hours of organized chaos, in the best way. It's free, it's outdoors, and it's built entirely around the four-legged member of your household.

Here's what's on the lawn: pet supply vendors, dog rescue organizations meeting their next adopters, a balloon artist, a face painter, caricatures (for you, presumably, though no one's checking), and pup pools so your dog can cool off between laps of the schmoozing circuit. There are photo ops, because of course there are, and your camera roll will thank you.

The headliners, though, are the Plymouth Police K9 demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. — the working dogs showing off the kind of focus your golden retriever pretends not to have when you call her name at the dog park. Worth showing up for even if you don't have a dog.

A few practical notes: the event is free, but bring cash for food trucks and vendors. Dogs must be leashed. And shout-out to this year's sponsors keeping it free — First Class Plumbing, Gateway Fiber, Kyle Vitense State Farm, Plymouth Lions Club, and Renewal by Andersen.

Saturday morning. Hilde Performance Center. Your dog. Other dogs. What more do you want from a weekend?

📖 QOTW (QUOTE OF THE WEEK)

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott

🌪️ WEATHER WATCH

We're living in the 60s and 70s with sunshine – this is the May forecast we were promised after surviving winter.

Fri 08 73°/47° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧0%

Sat 09 63°/37° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧18%

Sun 10 61°/34° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧4%

Mon 11 64°/44° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧1%

Tue 12 56°/40° Showers 🌧️ | 💧54%

Wed 13 66°/48° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧7%

Wed 14 70°/53° Mostly Sunny 🌤️ | 💧23%

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